pantai cox hearing greece all protests are banned before a visit to athens by germany's chancellor merkel as the country has just a week left to qualify for its next bailout installment. rock obama's presidential rival mitt romney calls for arming the syrian rebels with media revelations now showing import of weapons crates already in the hands of insurgents. close market beijing says the u.s. is afraid to compete on an equal food ng after regulations from washington to china stop companies could be spawning on america.

what you are going to live from moscow one pm and the russian capital on marina josh craze isn't golf to protest with thousands of police officers deployed to athens i had a visit by the german chancellor angela merkel well later we'll catch up with our correspondent sara firth who is there and she will bring us the very latest in the meantime rock obama's rival for the u.s. presidency mitt romney has called for a more aggressive foreign policy in the middle east which would include arming the syrian rebels the democrats have hit back saying romney stands lacks vision and consistency artie's going to chicken has more. is president obama of quote sitting

on the sidelines end of quote and not being aggressive enough on syria mr romney suggested actively arming the rebels with weapons that can bring down aircraft in the off hands he said quote the greater tragedy of it all is that we're missing a story opportunity to win new friends who share our values in the mideast and world but mitt romney's other remarks suggested that maybe he doesn't really care about whose hands the weapons would end up in because the objective that he stated was to defeat assad seeing it as a stepping stone to iran and iran is sending arms to assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them we should be working no less vigorously you are in an international partners to support the many syrians who would deliver that defeat to iran rather than sitting on the sidelines so basically mitt romney suggested taking advantage of the crisis in syria to fulfill the goal of defeating iran's blatant but straightforward remark basically expressing the same opportunistic

approach to foreign policy that the u.s. has had for many years while obama campaign called romney reckless and amateurish when it comes to foreign policy so far the administration has stopped short of directly arming the rebels although washington is coordinating the efforts of their allies in the region that is saudi arabia qatar turkey which are providing weapons to the rebels one way or another but those allies are saying that they only provide smaller weapons that they would love to send heavy artillery but they don't have the green light from washington for that because reportedly the administration fears that the weapons might end up in the hands of terrorist experts say one of the reasons why the rebels are not settling down for a negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that sense that support is on the way that there will be an intervention and everybody now understands without a negotiated solution bloodshed will continue. meanwhile. b.b.c. film crew in syria has discovered the rattles are in possession of weapons crates

man for the saudi military the insurgents refuse to comment on how they got the shipment and gave no permission to film its contents this comes amid to ask elating fighting across the country was bombed last and firefights in damascus and tara kay is stepping up its war rhetoric after a six consecutive days of returning fire with syria in response to shelling that some speculate as a provocation by the rebels political analyst dan lazar excess the insurgents are desperate for foreign intervention. the folks there mistake a lot on this bid to oust. and because these guys own reasons for doing this on the one hand they're trying to give cover over to the rebels to continue their fight they know that the rebels again defeated on the ground so they're bombarding syria as a way to help the rebels not lose too many of their positions but i think also wants to please is kind of. nato nato masters in its bid to join the e.u.

so it's been willing to do the bidding europe and the u.s. britain france and the u.s. they may be helping the hoping that they can somehow try and knowledge made into taking action as well and promising a kind of the blitzkrieg is that she the only thing really that would enable the rebels we're now at this. german chancellor angela merkel is expected in athens let's now talk to our correspondent sara first who is in the greek capital for us well sara what is the mood in the streets of athens ahead of merkel's visit. because she'll be arriving shortly and the world can parties possibly not what she does being expect she will hoping for this is undertaken the biggest security operation that is sacred of the many many years seven thousand police officers patrolling the streets like this on the rooftop north of canada and the protests planned across many parts about this to show you what's going on here at the moment

in syntagma the people the police lining some of the streets at the moment they're still coming out only to it in the post you call them down in front of the main parliament building as well as we were walking around to this mode of lucy saw many of the big buses full of the riot police that's in preparation for later this a lot of conservative pulls that you're going to see that anger spilling out on to the streets again this is the first time the german chancellor merkel has visited greece since the u.a.e. crisis started and she's going to find a country and its business years of recession in court in a devastating spiral of the there it seems as if the steroids he makes is that many people here in greece blame her for the police they said there was a great husband in place today because many parts of the things in the gulf not salute you as well as these to kenyan security measures that are going to be costing a huge amount to the country to how you stood chancellor merkel other people are

going to be allowed to come out and demonstrate long joined by the secretary for the main trade unions caring for his thank you very much for joining us now you're going to be going out and you think states be demonstrating anyway on when. it's a difficult day for us of course democratic countries. like a greece everybody is welcome to visit our country. is. one of those person who symbolizes something as you said before but there we have to demonstrate and to show not only to her but to the global that they are trying to impose measures without the tolerance of the society and we believe that that is the main problem now he year seen there in the in the in the in the crisis and after two package of measures they're coming again to impose a new package of measures the same one the same ones which are once again once

again out wages pensions the minimum wage to the minimum so we we can have now and in the close days we can have for example pension schemes in the in the in the in the agricultural sector up just three years three hundred euros i mean because the cars have been pulling in enforcing you seeing this anger spilling at time and again on systems what is the feeling amongst the people at the name if it's anger i can say now the first the first thing is a disease anger the first feeling but at the same time we can't believe that they are trying to look at they have they they gave promises that we should go out of there to sation for doing a half years now but that is ours is that if we are going deeper and deeper in the inner zation in the recession so there is no there is no meaning to continue this policy that that of this this kind of policy. needed to three governments now

this is the third is the third government would have seems since the crisis started so. we believe that this policy which is imposed from troika they need with the political system to run on stability and stability situation everything we can see there is already cheats number of things alyse to the masses it's. a separation how are people going to feel like that would affect anything that's going to have while they're doing their job we always say that we are demonstrating we are striking all the time in a peaceful way and we're going to do this today he says he sees he says how can i say this is our room we're going to demonstrate in a peaceful way so we want to show where everybody that we are here to demonstrate against a new package of measures we are we first of all who to speak and we love our country that's why we're fighting for our country we're also fighting for our society who don't want to do have and do and live in the image in another modern of

that they there were right of it they want to know we gave so many so many asked yeah how can i say we photo many times in the past because we believe in the social model the social model the european social hope that instead of this they're trying to create something new and they're starting from limited their own encounters that's why we are living now in a different way that's why we're in contact with our italian colleges how to spend spanish college and we are trying to show them that it's enough with this austerity measures it's easy to do nothing without all of the state of the package it's enough of asking for the from the people from the lowest levels of the society to pay again and again we say to all of them that it's enough and we will continue demonstrating and sighting of this wave. doing as well as he said i mean that is there it's amazing impact is seen all around greece and then a chance another way to have to look very far we see if i said to see the impact of

these asperity measures the gemini had been in casings from of the huge rates of unemployment that every day still those that people are having here the huge amount of fame is this is a waste i mean the anger that cannot be underestimated here there is to send later of course it will see more of that anger spilling out onto the streets. you know you can feast as well it's an unchosen that the place is coming here as a show of solidarity well i love it when you get a little later this little saw that directly you need to do that one of the way out of this crisis is not more so that it's something that is actually trying to drive the people full of the evil and reminded by the feeling you know we've had years and years of this well they haven't seen it so she may be coming to visit. with a lot of people here well that's. right sarah thanks very much indeed for keeping our fingers on the pulse there and of course we're crossing back to you for more on this visit and what comes out of it sara for us reporting there from greece. to

other news that we're following here for you on r t fireworks jubilation and a fiesta atmosphere right now in venezuela this only means one thing president hugo chavez is there to stay and so are his plans for how to handle the country's economy including its enormous oil reserves as are often of reports it's a strong reason for some painful headaches in the west the experience of going to trial that may be at its worst liberation for the workers this is one party that wants to be here public but if we can't work it is doing it on. t.v. . it's a victory that supporters say has implications far beyond this country's borders carries shadows is the father of south america all the presidents who are friends among each other latin america understand the understand the significance of chavis for the world that's rising up from its knees for the world of equality for the

world without it in many of the empire without a gemini if you wish and that's precisely what makes many western governments nervous venezuela could be an example for other countries i mean here you have a country that is seeing the polarization of wealth which we see not just in one country not just in two countries but globally is completely. toxic it must be addressed and that there must be a redistribution of wealth this is antithetical to what's been known as the washington consensus so in that sense the. president chavez is as a threat a threat that doesn't just hurt washington's influence but its coffers under chavez venezuela has refused to act as a market for u.s. based private investment and no longer can u.s. oil firms rely on the country as a stable source of cheap crude venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves chavez has promised to ramp up production and slash this country's dependence on u.s. markets by doubling exports to asia according to the president that is why he

represents a threat to the west it's all about the. from the economic point of view we have the largest petroleum reserves in the world when the world runs out of oil and only five countries which possess the majority of reserves were male and your mother was a russia iran saudi arabia iraq and iran is well. it's black gold can account for the vilification of chavez in the west after all just a year after he took office in one thousand nine hundred nine chavez toured the middle east to lobby key opec members to drive or oil prices higher but he also provided subsidized oil to bella bruce nicaragua and syria countries whose relations with the west aren't exactly ideal for critics that is well under chavez is a terrifying prospect. i think chavez is mostly criticized for his foreign policy first for breaking relations with traditional trade partners of venezuela such as colombia and the us and second for political alliances with countries which are

considered as non-democratic and even belligerent in their foreign policy such as cuba and even more so iran. chavez says his world view is just one that the west is going to have to get used to. when the so that it was said that an american model ruled the world and i wanted to remember that end of history by an american or i suspect the yama what i had given israel as a rose against new liberalism twenty years ahead of europe. which is happening now and that is well it didn't know what the i.m.f. we were not a world power yet. the part of the past the next six years play out one thing's for certain for now the toughest was another new world order it's fair to say this is a passing of our two. invented by the famed soviet author. in the nineteen fifties these frames very nice

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in the united states financial considerations were one of the reasons they brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the others in america average height is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average for women height isn't so important girl can be sure it's not a big deal like your guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. for an hour's work or you're so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

welcome back you're watching night she live from moscow with me or even joshie a trade dispute is brewing between washington and beijing the u.s. house intelligence committee says two top chinese companies should be barred from doing business in america and your report warns dow the equipment made by a telecom giant go away and manufacturers' e t e could be used by beijing to spy on the u.s. but you followers have struck back saying the document is actually aimed at hampering them all competing on the american market the u.s. telecommunications sector is attractive to foreign companies as it's worth some thirty billion dollars and keeps growing but ten cars senior director of strategy

for free press says the route with china could backfire on the united states. it's interesting to note that most computer equipment most telecommunications equipment is in fact made in china increasingly china is a player in the technology space and their ability to create cheap manufactured products should pose a threat to business interests overseas business threat not so much a national security threat politics definitely comes into play here you're seeing in both the romney and obama campaign an effort to get tough against china this could very well be an outgrowth of that but also of concern is the idea of the marketplace for cyber security with their estimates that i've seen it but this in multibillion dollar business so it's in the interest of lot of these companies that provide cyber security services to inflate the fear it helps businesses that sell cyber security systems that sell systems that will allow us to protect against these alleged attacks that helps them make money so potential for this to have

a blowback effect on the united states you look at american companies like cisco systems which is very invested in in growing its business in china usually what happens when you have these kind of international controversies if the u.s. acts against a chinese company you could very well see the chinese government act against a u.s. company on its own turf. the european union has for of to be a real magnet for ukraine's migrant workers was one in ten ukrainian some ploy in the block country spot as some nations to stand further into recession many are heading back home feeling the time has come to find a better life there i think here is asking us to gates the reverse and trained. and snowier goes to villages with empty houses and few people on the street a common sight for western ukraine and it's not the result of any disaster. almost every family in the west of ukraine has a member working abroad ever since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. ukraine has been one of the main suppliers of cheap labor force into the european

union as it stands over four million ukrainians are currently working in europe that's every tenth citizen of the country but this is changing yuri worked in spain for almost a decade before escaping the financial crisis and resettling back home at times he indulges in some gastronomical nastar jia and make spanish style salami at home but yuri says there is no going back in europe. i made good use of the money i earned there i bought several stools and currently lease them i also bought a house twenty five kilometers from revolve if i stayed in spain i would have to work like a slave to earn something here i can enjoy life many of my friends who stayed in spain and now out of work and planning to come back to. and he's far from the only one the real estate market in western ukraine is seeing a boom in property sales all thanks to those running away from the collapsing euro

zone and i think a lot of people they may have thought of buying houses in the e.u. but you seen how the crisis playings those countries and are returning home of all real estate properties sold last year almost a quarter of the guys were returned migrants muesli by two to three room apartment with up to one thousand euros in the last two three months alone more than a thousand families want flats here which makes around a hundred million euros worth of investment into property in just one of ukrainian regions the overall sum of european money ending up in ukrainian spoke its is even more astonishing last year ukraine was able to receive up to seven billion years dollars from the ukrainian marion's currently working abroad and that coming from the worst affected by the financial crisis spain italy and portugal where many businesses have grown reliant on migrant ukrainian workers you might think their

return home should benefit both sides but in reality economists believe this may spell trouble for ukraine amount of remittances we usually receive in front of me is going to go down from seven billion i would expect that this year should be on the level of five b. here they tional supply of labor coming from e.u. countries to ukraine is needed to be supported and it's additional pressure for the ukrainian by it which is quite difficult to do when you have a limited amount of resources but yuri says even if the labor market goes into meltdown it would not be as bad as it could have been if you stayed in spain the money he brought back has made him completely self-sufficient and immune from being and wanted either at home or abroad. reporting from ukraine. and here's some news that we are getting here on our

t.v. . that we have received from russian city of orange three blasts have been heard in the city with huge plumes of smoke that have been sent into the air and series of blasts of shaken a military testing ground near the city and several explosions were heard as well well according to preliminary reports four people were injured and sources say the military were disposing of munitions of course we'll bring you later and right now let's change face and turn to the world of business where marina's got all the very latest for us over to you marina thank you all this hour more than turn the market action in particular europe russia and the currencies let's start with europe where investors are reacting to the international monetary fund saying that global recovery is slow and down and out global growth is weakening for two thousand and thirteen now is that the folks are setting a quarter of the science and the term of x. at all but more than that russian market says that they look at those because we

expect in the previous hour and best time in positive territory gaining just knowledge as oil prices have bounced back for this traded session currencies the euro strengthened against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the road will we see actually that the euro has reversed its earlier gains when it comes to ruble it's again against the currency basket and the so we have time for this spike to you the latest on that story you were talking about all right absolutely maria thanks for this and coming up in just a few moments here in our team we discover more about life in russia's remote villages through the eyes of one very peculiar resident. download the official ati application cellphone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from matson l.t.v. is not required to watch on t.v.

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